–By Brendan & John

When Bioware announced it was making Star Wars: The Old Republic, it promised to change the way we played MMOs by giving a fully voice acted story arch for every quest, as well as numerous other tweaks to the MMO formula that would be modified to act more like a Bioware RPG. Did they deliver on the promise? John and Brendan take a look.

First, an overview of the game.

SWTOR is an MMO. There’s no way around it. It might have new ideas and do things differently, but at the end of the day it’s an MMO. But don’t take that as a bad thing; the game offers so many choices to players, it’s a refreshing change of pace when it comes to MMOs.

For example, you may choose to roll as a Sith Warrior, which probably conjures up images of Darth Maul, or an evil force user bent on [Read more...]